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I have just entered the world of growing I am using 1800 watt leds my medium is organic soil and I use flora bloom for nutrients I am currently at week 4 of flowering and I’m worried my buds are not getting big enough. Any help would be appreciated.ill post some pictures

How many real watts?

Your gonna hear it anyways, so i may as well be the first... leds = small buds...

growingforfun said:

How many real watts?

Your gonna hear it anyways, so i may as well be the first... leds = small buds...

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So when I tested my lights it was 975 Watts

WingAK said:

So when I tested my lights it was 975 Watts

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So thats the number you say when you tell people how many watts your using.

The "adjusted watts" is a sales tactic to sell equipment to noobies. Everyone here actually knows what they are doing so just list real watts and type, led, mh, hps, cfl etc. Or the name of the light if its branded. Not tryin to be rude at all just let ya know so we can do our best to help ya out.

Id say those are looking a little over watered, an suffering from poor lighting. Buds should be much bigger by week 4.
There may also be too much nitrogen, based on the texture of the leaves, but its hard to really see whats going on in that burple light.

who makes your light? is it cobs or smaller chips? any idea what kind of actual leds it uses?
some are decent, some aren't,

it makes it a lot easier to give an opinion if we can see the whole plant in regular light.
we can also give better suggestions if you'll tell us what kind of medium you're growing in, how much of what nutes you're using, at what ph, what your lighting schedule is, what your temps and rh are.....

It’s Philzon leds I got them off amazon.

i looked on amazon, not garbage, but there are a lot better lights. look into HLG or Timber, and i'm sure you'll get several other suggestions soon enough....

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Here’s without the led on

Temperatures

too much N, which is what causes the leaf tips to "claw" like that, otherwise not too bad.
look like they stretched a good bit under those lights, get yourself a couple of good hlg quantum boards to go with those and you'll get shorter, bushier plants with better bud development

Roger A. Shrubber said:

i looked on amazon, not garbage, but there are a lot better lights. look into HLG or Timber, and i'm sure you'll get several other suggestions soon enough....

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It looks like garbage to me. Only good tbing i cam say about it is that its going to be a cheap lesson at least. I was worried he coulda spent 10x as much.

Right now your burning about as many watts as a 1kw hps, so if you dont yield a lb of premium buds from this, youll know you should have used a hps.

Thank you where can I find those boards?

So if I switched to a 1000w hps could I increase yield before harvest or is it to late?

Id say its gettung pretty late in the game. You may see a good improovment still, but your foundation has already been built. You may just wamt to finish this run off with what you have going, so you have a good base to compare your next run to.

If you decide to go with hps cooling is pretty easy so long and you use the right size fans. Always go with 8 inch fans and ducting.
6 inch fans are louder an dont really move enough air.

https://horticulturelightinggroup.com/

hps is old tech, but it works, reliably. use it myself for now, saving up to go with strips and QB mix.